Letter written to a Vermont soldier from his sister during the Civil War. This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. Help us improve our transcriptions! If you see an error, email us at specialcollections@middlebury.edu .
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Joseph Watson (ed.) Shawn O'Neil Todd Sturtevant
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Camp of the 1st Vt Cavalry [underline] Va [/underline] near fort Scott. Oct 24th 1862
Dear Brother It is with pleasure I seat myself once more to converse a few moments with you in the Silent language of the pen. I received your much welcomed letters a few days since and happy [was?] I to sit down and [loss] contence [sic] and [loss] know that [loss] was well. It [loss] consolation to me to know that we can have this privilege to converse with each other. It is my constant hope and prayer that we may both be sparied [sic] to meet with each other a great many times yet in this life. If not I hope that
